Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 409 Saint John Street in Bunkie, LA 71322. It is one of 27 churches in Bunkie.
Our vision is to create a learning environment that not only imparts knowledge but also instills values, confidence, and a passion for lifelong learning.
At St. Anthony’s School, we believe in shaping the future by fostering holistic growth and nurturing children to be God-fearing individuals.
Serving since 2021 · Ramp access
409 Saint John Street, Bunkie, LA, 71322Phone: (318) 346-7274 · Website: http://stanthonysschool.org
Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 578 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 18,933 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 63.0% (44.4–81.5%)
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 41.1% (30.6–51.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (2.3–17.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Amazon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Union Church — 1.2 mi away
- Apostolic Lighthouse of Bunkie — 1.4 mi away
- First Union Church — 1.7 mi away
- Booneville Church — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 2.8 mi away
- Saint Joseph Church — 3.2 mi away
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- Trinity Episcopal Church — 7.7 mi away in Cheneyville, LA